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Haiti: Comprehensive, Rights-Based Response Needed to Address Catastrophic Crisis ...

ensuring human rights are upheld. In everything we do UNHCR considers refugees and those forced to flee as partners, putting those most affected at the centre of planning and decision-making. UNHCR is ...

The human rights record of Kenya will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR ...

The United States has a special interest in safeguarding the integrity of human rights because America is founded on the rights inherent in all persons, and the nation’s political ...

United Nations International Days ... to this outreach was the UN’s commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights; the understanding that there are inalienable rights to which ...

UNPO participated in the 24th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) representing the Naga people, who have been members ...

Part of ongoing efforts to strengthen international cooperation and dialogue on the promotion and protection of human rights ...

In 1948, following the traumatic events of World War Two, representatives from the 48 countries of the United Nations came together ... of the European Convention on Human Rights – an international ...

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is a key multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 16, 1966, and entered into force on ...

DHAKA: (Reuters) The United Nations Human Rights Office on Friday (Aug 30 ... accession to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and praised ...